Pasteurizer.



v.- *To all 'whom/it may concern:

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. Be it knownl that I, CHARLES HfLoEW, .a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of g'fiState ofOhi, have invented certain new and usefullniprovements in Pasteurizers, of

' 1 5" 'of the' apparatus are apt to he so abrupt as to `f--fcra`ck the packages containing the liquids if such 'packages are made of glass, which is `corrimorily the case, and if an economical rate oimove'ment is maintained hy the eonveyer.

l 2o lIn tins type'of apparatus fie Liquid-bath lfg 'UIIIHOIIY heated hy steam forced intov it under pressure, causing a large amount of Stefm t0 gather in the ap aratus above the surface of the bath. If tiie steam is drawn y 25 toward the inlet end of the .apparatus by means of a chimney, itis apt to escapeeaving that part of the apparatus cold, so that when the bottles enter the hot bath theywill crack. If, on the other hand, the steam is not 3o removed or prevented from reaching the inlet end, it accumulates at that place and is apt to he puffed out into the faces of the Workmen engaged in loading the conveyer and scald them. At the outlet end another diiiicultv Specification of Letters latent.

i Application iiledliiovember 30 'l9`,03. Serial fio. 18t,109.

. 1Lakewood, in the county'of Cuyahoga and- ,Patented Ejec. 5, 191115.

` he drawing is a central verticallsection of the apparatus broken at the middlevinorder that'y the'illustration may come Withinthe limits of one sheet.

In the drawing, ji is along tardo-of iron orcther suitable material and provided with suitable4 inlet and outlet ports and 'with steam-pipes 2 or other `means for ,heatingv its contents and adapted t'o .be filled with water. At each end `of the tank' and adapted Wheels 3 3, arranged in pairs. Over these passchains 4, supporting transverselybetween them -slatsor rods 5, the whole forming an endless flexible conveyer adapted' lto carry through the hath the beer-bottles placed in cases. ,At Itheinlet end' is mounted a third pair of sprocket-wheels 7, over which the conveyer also passes'. The convey@ ni'g" lhwardly at the inlet end to one end of a .guide 8. It rides down this guide into the' bathfthence passes through the latter, and then up and out of it, emerging at the oppo- 465 .I to revolvezin suitable bearings are sprocket-Y.

site end of the tank. The conveyer vis roi pelled fro-1n a suitable source of power. (i ot shown.) "1

Above the tank and over t'he entire apparatus is a long coverl 10, terminating at the inlet end in a hood 1.1 and at the outlet end in a similar hood I2. The respective walls 13 and 14 of these hoods depend verticali from the edges thereof and are provided with7 ports 15 and 16, through which the l'mttle-n Containing boxes are massed r a sesam? 22. A pastelrizing apparatus comprising a tank havin' a pasteurizing portion between. its ends an provided at one end with a preliminary vaheatin chamber leading to said pasteurizing portion and its other end with a cooling-chamber leadin from said pasteurizing portion,l said charnlgners having steam or vapor containin portions through Which are l carried the artic es being pasteurized, means inv said pre1irninary-heating chamber acting in conjunction With the steam or vapor to -producea radual increase in the heat aplied in sai chamber from its inlet to its outet, and means in the cooling-chamber onerating to produce an increasing cooling e'i`ect from the inlet to the outlet of said chamber.

23. AA pasteurizing apparatus comprising a ber, 1903, at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York.

CHARLES H. LoEW.

. Witnesses:

HERMAN MEYER, WILLIAM R. BAIRD.

No. 805,355. I PATBNTED DEC'. 5, 1905.

Gl F GONDIMBNT HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1905.

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